The class is conducted through lectures, discussion sessions, and article presentations. The participants came from a diverse background, including students from China, Belize, and Indonesia, which benefits the width and depth of our discussion as it provides a non-Taiwanese perspective on the political and election system. I provided theoretical guidelines for the students to follow, but also encouraged them to conduct additional research in the topic instead of simply leading the discussion of the research paper.

Results from the article and final presentations are fantastic, students often constructively discuss complex issues and provide their detailed perspectives on the controversial topics. Such as the local faction politics in Taiwan, Mexican cartels' influences on the election, and the religious direction taken by political parties in Indonesia. Controversial but significant is a good way to describe certain issues that exist in the economic and political world, and what we achieved throughout the class is not limited to the introduction of different theories, but to acknowledge the different perspectives and hopefully learn from the engagements instead of leading to unnecessary conflicts.